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Transmission Adds IPv6 Support, More

Transmission, one of the favorites in BitTorrent clients for Mac, has reached version 1.50 Beta, adding support for Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). The latest stable version of the software (Transmission 1.42) is also available for free download. According to the changelog, Transmission 1.50 Beta 1 adds IPv6 su...

12 January 2009
04:51 GMT

Microsoft Opens Up Exchange ActiveSync Protocols

Microsoft has delivered a new piece of the puzzle of its interoperability vision by opening up the complete set of Exchange ActiveSync protocols. In accordance with the company's Interoperability Principles, introduced in February 2008, Microsoft has not only finished publishing the entire collection of Exchange...

19 December 2008
05:58 GMT

Google Is Prepared for the Future

As of April this year, estimations are that the current number of available IPs are not going to be sufficient for all of the Earth's inhabitants. The current IPv4 Internet standard can provide networks with "only" 4 billion IP configurations, which isn't enough to cover all the 6 billion possible Internet ...

14 May 2008
04:12 GMT

IP Addresses Running Low

Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the net, who played a key role in the development of the protocols (like the IPv4 that is currently the most used IP version in the world) which underpin the global internet has recently said: "There is a risk of not being able to get online." He added: "The rate of consumpt...

31 October 2007
17:50 GMT

WiMAX Gains Some Speed

The WiMAX mobile communication technology is finally ready to go from the lab to the field testing phase and this fact makes all major telecommunication companies face a few important decisions that they should undertake concerning their 4G strategies.According to the news site digitimes, the research firm ABI Resear...

8 October 2007
11:29 GMT

Wireless USB 1.1 Under Development

The Universal Serial Bus is probably the most popular and widely used interconnect protocol in use today that can link a high number of peripherals to a host computer system and it comes in several versions, like the legacy iterations 1.0 and 1.1, the modern 2.0 iteration and the upcoming version 3.0. On the physical...

1 October 2007
09:43 GMT

Some USB 3.0 Technical Specifications Detailed

While Intel and a number of other important computer hardware manufacturing companies announced at the Intel Developer Forum that a new Universal Serial Bus is in the making, just do not throw away all your USB 2.0 compliant hardware components, as the new iteration of the popular connectivity standard is still years...

26 September 2007
05:24 GMT

Get Ready For USB 3.0, Says Intel

It looks like the days of glory for USB 2.0 and FireWire B are coming to an end as Intel Corporation and a number of other major computer hardware manufacturing companies are pushing ahead a new standard for connecting devices to a host computer system, the USB 3.0. This new interconnect standard should offer a huge ...

19 September 2007
10:45 GMT

Incoming PCI-Express 3.0 Standard

The second PCI-Express standard is still far away from being used on large scale, on both laptop and desktop computer systems and already a new iteration of the internal computer communication protocol is already on the move. The PCI-SIG (the shorthand for PCI Special Interest Group) which controls the technical spec...

9 August 2007
08:52 GMT

The IEEE Works Toward a Faster Ethernet

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE as it is commonly known among computer hardware and software specialists, is a group centered mainly on the standardization and formalization of the different approaches to solve a particular problem in the IT world. Most protocols used by the computer in...

24 July 2007
11:04 GMT

How to Download a DVD Under 4 Seconds

You get a batch of semiconductors, put in some silicon to make the mixture homogeneous, bake it for 25 minutes at 250 degrees Celsius, then take the result, spread it evenly in a straight line over a couple of kilometers, and look really silly while doing it. Or you can just call up the researchers from the Universi...

25 April 2007
10:38 GMT


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